Varyag
@Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Certified foxgirl enjoyer. Weeb, but hasn’t properly watched anime in ages. Gamer of incresingly niche subgenres. Aficionado of racecars, mechas, fighter jets, and any other vehicles you can think of. Lives in the wrong side of the planet compared to all my friends. Made way too many Fedi accounts
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 3 days ago:
Monster Hunter. The first one I played, MH4U back in the 3DS days, I put 1,000 hours into. That was nearly 10 years ago, and I’m still playing the franchise to this day. Currently finally going through the Sunbreak expansion of Monster Hunter Rise on the PC, and noticing a marked improvement in my mental health over playing other games.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 6 days ago:
I just reinstalled NFSU2 because of the new big expansion mod underground2.net Between this, my brother wanting to play Halo, and the new Linkin Park album coming out this week, I feel like I’m in 2004 again.
- Comment on Some guy complained this fishing game only caters to queer players, so the dev added a "straight" title - it costs $9999 1 week ago:
I’ve heard some queer friends talking about this game and I had no idea what it was. Now I know, and not only is this hilarious now I want to give it a try. It looks pretty cute.
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 2 weeks ago:
Lol, lmao, no.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 weeks ago:
Played the beta last night and yeah, it got me in the mood for monster hunting again. Time to finally go play Sunbreak since I bought it ages ago, but never played through it again (bought the base game first on the Switch)
- Comment on Straftat recreates the experience of joining a random Half-Life or Quake deathmatch server in the year 2000 3 weeks ago:
Splendid, that description seems like fun. I’ll try it out.
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 4 weeks ago:
Fuck off, Denuvo.
Yes, the Steam forums are awful, but still. Fuck off. Nobody wants you here.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 1 month ago:
It doesn’t help when your scummy studio is infamous for it’s egregious DLC practices, nickel and diming basic game mechanics into a million separate packs. And then you have the gall to release a game as broken as that, after having the excellent prequel as comparison? And it’s still broken, a year after the initial release.
Yeah you bet your ass that customers won’t be accepting of that.
- Comment on ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton 1 month ago:
Oh wait, this isn’t the same Zoom of the video chats from the pandemic? I had no idea this store even existed. It having Linux support is a big plus now.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Says Big Budget Games Are Failing in Part Because Teams Are Over-Scoping Their Projects 1 month ago:
Companies want all games to be multiplayer with online live ops and events and a steady flow of microtransactions money.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
It’s not just about the tech, it’s about their mindset. They’re stuck in that era mentally.
- Comment on Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down 1 month ago:
Fuck Nintendo. The emulators are still out there, easily accessible alongside the leaked Nintendo games they wanted people not to pirate. I know I will be doing that even harder now, lol.
- Comment on Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down 1 month ago:
yeah I had the same thing when I thought I archived the installer for Citra and yuzu. guess we have to go find pre-compiled setups now.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
Japan was already living in the 2000’s back in the 80’s. The problem is that 40 years later, they’re still living and thinking in the exact same way.
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 1 month ago:
Ah yes it’s always a bug after massive community backlash. If there wasn’t much, it’d have been a test, and if there wasn’t any, it was always intended.
- Comment on This arcade space combat game is inspired by the golden age of "prestige anime" 1 month ago:
Cool game, terrible article. The writer spends 60% of it just complaining about the voicecast and anime in general while saying he still watches anime in a second screen. Says he doesn’t care about the JP voice cast because he watches dubs, then immediately mentions that he doesn’t care about the English dubs voice actors either. Which is it, then? Why should anyone give a shit what he thinks after that? Smh, I’ll at least check the game out, I miss Star Fox.
- Comment on MOSS Announces Raiden Fighters Remix Collection Featuring Classic Shoot ‘Em Ups | Retro Gaming News 24/7 1 month ago:
Yes this is pretty great, these games are arguably more fun than regular Raiden but are a bit annoying to emulate.
- Comment on Horse archers ruin every game they are in. 1 month ago:
The age old conundrum of the unit that may or may not be strong in real combat situations, but becomes absolutely gamebreakingly busted when added to videogames, because it’s strenghts translate into overwhelming advantages with none of the real life drawbacks it had to endure, usually via game design, bad balancing or games putting said units in unrealistic situations.
Take for example anti-aircraft guns since WW2. Other than the obvious real example of the FlaK88 being turned into an AT gun by the Germans, several others of these become anti-infantry or even anti-armor rapid firing nightmares in war games, because they’re put well inside their optimal range and within threatening range of infantry and tanks. Which would usually destroy them from afar. The OTO Melara gun is a good modern example. Italian radar guided 110mm naval gun, was never mounted onto a proper line vehicle that was adopted by any country. But the prototypes, like the OTOMatic, absolutely terrorize every game where they appear, as a hyper accurate, rapid firing, high damage anti-everything gun.
Horse archers are just the ancient ages example of that.
- Comment on Counterfeit PS1 Games Are All Over AliExpress 1 month ago:
Why is anyone susprised about this? This is the most predictable outcome.
Then again, you’d probably already have a jailbroken PS1 to play copied games, you could burn them yourself. Or emulate, it’s so easy to emulate PS1 nowadays. No need to spend money importing those copies from China.
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
Ahhh, true freedom!
- Comment on Who is your favorite video game developer? 1 month ago:
FromSoftware, 100%. From the days of Armored Core to all the Souls games.
- Comment on Which is better: Gran Turismo or Ridge Racer? (PS1) 1 month ago:
They’re very different racers. One is arcade racing, drifting fun perfected, the other is an incredibly fun racing career and car collecting simulator (still not an actual simulator, but physics at least resemble the real world)
I say play both GT2 and RR Type 4 and see which one you like better. Alongside Wip3out I’d say these are the absolute BEST racing games of the console.
- Comment on Diablo IV surpasses $1B in revenue, with $150M coming in from microtransactions 2 months ago:
What about Grim Dawn?
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 2 months ago:
Thanks for taking that L for the industry again, Peter.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Warframe? 2 months ago:
I came here to type almost this exact comment, down to the number of hours played and money spent. And all that money I spent was on 50% off or higher discount tickets, too. Anyway, while I have gotten tired of the grind and quit a while ago because I didn’t gel much with the new systems introduced, it was still a great game I have many fond memories of playing.
- Comment on Mechabellum, my favourite auto-battling strategy game launches September 26 2 months ago:
I was hyped for it until I noticed that Paradox picked up the publishing .
- Comment on What are some video games that you would show up to a local tournament for? 2 months ago:
Or Quake! Even though I suck at arena shooters, any of them I’d want to hop in for.
- Comment on What are some video games that you would show up to a local tournament for? 2 months ago:
I would ABSOLUTELY attend a local tournament for AC6. The netcode is absolute ASS but the gameplay is so crisp, if we could play it without lag or ghost hits it would be great.
- Comment on Day 35 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Well this one was incredibly easy to identify, even with mods.
- Comment on What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024? 2 months ago:
I tend to not go that far back usually, mostly hovering around the mid 90’s and 2000’s with my retrogaming, but does it count if I’ve played some rounds of NES Tetris?
I’m currently reading a fantasy book from 1984 if that doesn’t count.